All pictures in Photos on Mac syncing with Photos on iPhone and taking up too much space

Since I downloaded Photos on my MacBook Pro, all the pictures that I had in iPhotos are not showing up on Photos on my laptop AND my iPhone. I used to be able to choose which iPhoto albums to sync with my iPhone and would prefer to do that again. It is taking up way too much space to have them all synced to my phone. Any idea how to choose which pictures I want available on my phone???

Before the migration to Photos on laptop, I would go to iTunes, Photos, Sync Photos, Selected Albums, and then choose the albums from iPhoto to sync to phone.
Since I had the problem with all of the photos syncing to iPhone, I un-checked Sync, but they were all still showing up on iPhone.
I just looked at iTunes and saw this message:
When I looked last week, the "copy from _______" was not an option. Now I am able to choose the iPhoto albums that I want to sync just as I was before.
I still don't know why they were syncing when I didn't have that option selected, but it appears Apple has fixed the issue I was having.
I guess I will continue to use iPhoto rather than Photos on my laptop to avoid this issue again.
Thank you for your help!!!!

Similar Messages

HT1386 The first time I synced my iphone with my mac, I didn't realize that all of my photos from iphoto would transfer over to the phone. Now, I need to remove some, as they are taking up too much space. I cannot figure out how to remove them from the

The first time I synced my iphone 4 with my mac, I didn't realize that all of my photos from the iphoto library would transfer over to the phone (more than 3,000). Now, I need to remove some, as they are taking up too much space. I cannot figure out how to remove them from the phone. I tried to uncheck boxes and sync again, but I get a message that there is no room on the iphone. I've read as many articles as I can find, but still cannot manage this. Thanks for any help.

Open itunes, connect iphone, select what you want, sync

I was copying files to my time capsule when it crashed when it was almost finished. Now I am stuck with a light grey folder I can not delete. I would´t care if it wasn´t for the fact the folder is 1 TB size and takes up too much space. I ha

I was copying files to my time capsule when it crashed when it was almost finished. Now I am stuck with a light grey folder I can not delete. I would´t care if it wasn´t for the fact the folder is 1 TB size and takes up too much space. I have tried turning on and of Hiding Files in Finder and what not with no success. So, how do I delete this folder. Remember, I am not extremely familiar with technical terms.

I recommend you erase the TC.. it is the easiest and fastest solution.
In Airport utility open the disk tab and select erase.. choose quick erase.. it will take less than 1min.
Start again but copy files in small amounts.

How can I get the photos on my 8gb iPod touch transferred to my Windows computer and removed from my iPod touch? They are taking up too much space.

I have an 8gb iPod Touch. How can I transfer my photos to my Windows computer and delete them from my iPod Touc? They are taking up too much space.

See:
Copying personal photos and videos from iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your computer

Cannot sync, not enough free space. 'other'is taking up too much space.

cannot sync, not enough free space. 'other'is taking up too much space. i have no 'other' things on my phone and have never had this problem before. I believe this may have come from upgrading to ios5.

Connect to iTunes, then click the Restore button. When asked, choose to set up as a new phone. After it finishes, right click on the name of the iPhone in the list on the left side of the iTunes window and choose Restore from Backup. Do this BEFORE you sync and after restoring.

Photo booth taking up too much space

I am not sure if I am putting this question in the right forum... I recently had an error saying my startup disk is almost full. I started investigating what is taking up so much space. I have a 500GB hard drive and only had about 3 gb free space. I started deleting some items and after lots of work I now am at 14.49GB free space. woo hoo! Well I see my photo booth library is taking up 278GB of space. Why so much? I opened the app and deleted almost all the pictures and videos in there, but it barely made a dent in how much space the program is using. Is it supposed to take up so much space? How can I clear it out?

There may be a way to have the library of PhotoBooth be saved and accessed to/from an externally enclosed hard disk drive, so it would (maybe) not be saving to the computer's HDD. I know it is possible to have an external drive harbor the iPhoto and iTunes libraries, so the internal computer drive is more lean.
A question remains... Do you have a separate user account for the kids so they don't have a way or reason to be mucking about in the Admin user account? And does the computer start up in a way where one has to log in before anyone can do anything? This would likely help keep some of the wondering where things are, to a minimum; or at least you can backup your admin account and secure content so if something happens, you can recover important stuff.
With a different user accounts, you can also limit what kinds of applications and services are accessed. {Also with kids online, if you had questions about what they were doing, especially where text and message content on social sites, you could even put a key-logger utility on their account.} There are various levels of user account for a reason, and things one can do for more watchfulness than just parental controls.
I can see why kids would have a fun time with photobooth and the things it can do with peoples faces, etc. When I was a kid, I grew up with a real photo darkroom and bulk film, so I was shooting 35mm and reloading the film cans, developing and printing, hands in chemicals. We also had reloading supplies for the guns. A different world, so was the range of hands-on learning experience.
You should buy a printed manual for the operating system, a Missing Manuals (for the OS X you have.) They're fairly good. I've had a few, mostly for older systems where I got a great deal for mere coins a few years after the newer systems were released, in secondhand stores. And included a few with Macs I'd restored and upgraded, when donated.
Anyway, life is an adventure...
Good luck & happy computing!

ICloud Photo Library taking up too much space

I am using iCloud Photo library, and noticed that it was taking up too much of my iCloud memory. I have 4 photos and no videos, and that uses around 300 MB of storage. What can I do to change this? Is this a bug?

If I upload my entire Photo Library to iCloud Drive, then delete photos from my Library (on my computer), can I still access those deleted photos on my iCloud Drive?
An iPhoto library will not work properly on iCloud Drive. It will be corrupted by the syncing. An iPhoto Library needs to be on a locally connected volume or on your system drive. Move your iPhoto Library to a small portable drive as described here: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library
A second problem is, that you cannot save space on your computer by uploading to iCloud Drive, because iCloud will keep local shadow copies of all items in your user library. Moving files to include Drive will not save any space at all. (iCloud Drive FAQ)

Photos taking up too much space on iphone

I am trying to free up space on my phone. If I go to the "usage" page in my phone, it says "photos and camera" takes up 5.8gb. If I click on that it subdivides it and says Photo Library is 2.0 and Synced from iPhoto is 3.6
BUT
When I go into the sync settings in my phone, it's only set to sync a few albums. It says "copy from iPhoto" - 534 photos. But the colored bar at the bottom that indicates how much space things are taking- if I hover over the "photos" section, it says 5.9GB and 2082 photos.
If I look in the phone there are about 500 pictures there.
Where is all my space?? I do not have 2000 pictures on my phone!!!
I'm guessing there's a corrupted file somewhere, but how do I fix it? Will a backup/restore do it? Is there ANYTHING short of that? I've tried deleting all pictures from the phone, turning off photo syncing altogether, etc. Then I added back in just the photos from the last 3 months- and suddenly it's 6gb again.
Please help!!!!!

The following may help: Why does my iOS device say I have more photos than I can find?

I selected manually manage music for my iTouch yet it keeps trying to sync to my entire music library. I do not want that as it is taking up too much space. How can I stop my iTouch from continuing to try and sync so I can manually manage my music?

How do I get my iTouch to manually manage my music? I selected manually manage, yet every time I hook my iTouch to my computer, it attempts to sync and load my entire library. I do not want the entire library as it takes up too much space and I don't want all of those songs on my iTouch. What am I missing? What else can I do?

Oops, sorry, I think you probably already did what I suggested (turning off auto synch).
I have the same question - how to synch, say, just one playlist.
There is an option to synch only things that are checked. But everything (in every playlist and item, is checked and there doesn't appear to be a box to "uncheck all", nor can you check each playlist individually.

My iPad won't sync with iCloud anymore, iPhone and Mac are fine, suggestions?

I have NO calendars showing up in iCal, no lists in reminders, no contacts.
I've deleted the iCloud account on the iPad and resigned in - no help. All the settings for accounts are the same on my iPad and iPhone.
Curiously, I get no "Default Calendar" setting in my "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" pref on the iPad

Hello Modean,
It sounds like you have deleted and re added the iCloud account to your iPad but none of the iCloud content will sync to this one device. I have a few things to recommend for you. First, delete the iCloud account again from Settings > iCloud. Then close all the apps on the iPad:
iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
Double-click the Home button.
Swipe left or right until you have located the app you wish to close.
Swipe the app up to close it.
When you have done that, reset the network settings on your iPad then retest the issue:
Reset network settings by tapping Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. Note: This will reset all network settings including:
previously connected Wi-Fi networks and passwords
recently used Bluetooth accessories
VPN and APN settings
From: iOS: Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1398
If the issue persists, I would next backup your device to iTunes, and restore it:
iOS: How to back up and restore your content
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Take care,
Sterling

MacBook Pro won't sync with iCloud, although iPhone and iPad are fine.

My MacBook Pro keeps telling me it can't sync with iCloud because my password may be incorrect. I keep re-entering the correct password, but this keeps on happening. iCloud seems to be working fine with iPhone and iPad. Also, there are 2 iCloud accounts showing on my MacBook, but if I try to delete one, it seems to delete both.

Your signature says you have 10.3.x but presumably this can't be correct - could you please make sure it's correct to prevent confusion. 10.7.2 is required for iCloud - your Mac won't be able to sync with pre-Lion systems.
The fact that you have iCloud accounts showing does suggest you have Lion: are they showing in System Preferences>iCloud, or where? You can only enter one there.
Are the two different or the same? You could try deleting both and then starting the setup again from scratch.

Please support wifi sync with itunes for iphone and touch

Why not syncing using Wifi for iphone, touch and Macs to keep libraries and devices in sync?
Bye Marco

This really isn't the best place to give Apple feedback. It is suggested you go through the appropriate channels, and in this case that would be via the iTunes Feedback Page.

Removing a iphone from syncing with my work iphone and ipad

I have recently got a new iphone from work and given my iphone (4) to my daughter (mum still paying the contract!) how do I stop her getting my imessages, which still show on my old phone? Can't seem to remove from my account..

you can go to settings and store and sign the appleID out
but easy way is to restore it to fectory settings and start it over as a new one
of cause this does mean she will loose all apps bought with your appleID but there is no way around that happening unless you also disable iMessage support in settings

Photos taking up too much space iOS 8 iPad & iphone

In iTunes and on my devices under usage, I noticed my photos are taking up 3.3 GB, much more than before I updated my OS to 8. I have about 350 photos, about 300 are a file from my computer which the computer says is 821MB, and the rest are pictures recently taken with my phone. I've deleted files from my deleted photos folder, reset my device with the home and power buttons, then I tried deleting and reloading everything from a backup. I also tried importing all of my photos from my phone to my iPad, then selecting the option to delete them from my phone. The numbers improved from 5+ GB to the 3.3 noted above, but I figure they should be using about 900MB, not 3.3GB.
I appreciate any help you might be able to offer,
Tracy

The following may help: Why does my iOS device say I have more photos than I can find?

I have two photo albums in my phone that I want to delete and I can't through the edit option or itunes, how can I delete them, they are taking up too much space on my phone?

Help, I have two albulms that I'm having trouble deleting through my phone and itunes.

Hi
If the Photoalbums were loaded from iTunes on a computer they can only be removed by Itunes and a computer.
If the albums were created on your iPhone then they are deleted on your iPhone,
Ih tyey are iTunes sourced albums you need to connect back up to iTunes/computer that you have been using. In the device Photo tab deselect all the checkboxes that are being asked to sync.
Select apply in the lower right corner.
Read this first
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4236

All pictures in Photos on Mac syncing with Photos on iPhone and taking up too much space

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for